A Closer Look

As mentioned before, the cooler is the NVIDIA reference cooler with an EVGA graphics on top.


This card is compatible with SLI and can be paired with any other 9600 GT card. Above picture also shows where you connect the SPDIF audio input from the motherboard for use with HDMI+Audio.


The power connector on the back is required to supply power to the card. It is also required when running in PCI-E 2.0 mode, which would be able to supply all power over the bus.


The Samsung GDDR3 memory chips are of the K4J52324QE-BJ1A variety. Their nominal latency is 1.0 ns (= 1000 MHz). In our overclocking tests we saw the card break even 1100 MHz.


This is NVIDIA's new G94 GPU, which is made at TSMC in a 65 nm process with 505 million transistors.